TY  - BOOK
AU  - Doumani,Beshara
TI  - Family history in the Middle East: household, property, and gender 
SN  - 079145679X (alk. paper)
AV  - HQ663.3 .F36 2003
U1  - 306.85/0956 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Family
KW  - Middle East
KW  - History
KW  - Domestic relations (Islamic law)
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-327) and index; Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation.  List of Tables and Figures.  1. Introduction / Beshara Doumani -- 2. Family and Household in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cairo / Philippe Fargues -- 3. Size and Structure of Damascus Households in the Late Ottoman Period as Compared with Istanbul Households / Tomoki Okawara -- 4. From Warrior-Grandees to Domesticated Bourgeoisie: The Transformation of the Elite Egyptian Household into a Western-style Nuclear Family / Mary Ann Fay -- 5. Women's Gold: Shifting Styles of Embodying Family Relations / Annelies Moors -- 6. "Al-Mahr Zaituna": Property and Family in the Hills Facing Palestine, 1880-1940 / Martha Mundy, Richard Saumarez Smith -- 7. Tribal Enterprises and Marriage Issues in Twentieth-Century Iran / Erika Friedl -- 8. Adjudicating Family: The Islamic Court and Disputes between Kin in Greater Syria, 1700-1860 / Beshara Doumani -- 9. Text, Court, and Family in Late-Nineteenth-Century Palestine / Iris Agmon -- 10. Property, Language, and Law: Conventions of Social Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Tarablus al-Sham / Heather Ferguson -- 11. Ambiguous Modernization: The Transition to Monogamy in the Khedival House of Egypt / Kenneth M. Cuno -- 12 "Queen of the House?" Making Immigrant Lebanese Families in the Mahjar / Akram F. Khater
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